Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 393 pages |
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Page 12
... honours , offices , and distinctions ; property and civil liberty have had no secu- rity from rapacity and caprice ; justice has become venal ; murder knows the price of its impunity ; and the unequal distribution of the criminal law ...
... honours , offices , and distinctions ; property and civil liberty have had no secu- rity from rapacity and caprice ; justice has become venal ; murder knows the price of its impunity ; and the unequal distribution of the criminal law ...
Page 15
... honours , under the form of a youth , and dedicated its statue in ivory at Delphi . Elian . Var . Hist . l . ii . c . 33. The river Hypsas , which flowed on the other side of the city , seems to have a similar derivation ( üoç altitudo ) ...
... honours , under the form of a youth , and dedicated its statue in ivory at Delphi . Elian . Var . Hist . l . ii . c . 33. The river Hypsas , which flowed on the other side of the city , seems to have a similar derivation ( üoç altitudo ) ...
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... honour sacred festivals called Theoxenia , were instituted at Agrigentum . The SW . angle of the cliff is adorned by two elegant columns of the It is plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod . Sic . nor ...
... honour sacred festivals called Theoxenia , were instituted at Agrigentum . The SW . angle of the cliff is adorned by two elegant columns of the It is plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod . Sic . nor ...
Page 41
... honoured in the choicest specimens of nu- mismatic art , despoiled of all her charms , and degraded to the vile office of a public wash - tub . Instead of Diana's train , a tribe of bare - legged nymphs , with their petticoats tied ...
... honoured in the choicest specimens of nu- mismatic art , despoiled of all her charms , and degraded to the vile office of a public wash - tub . Instead of Diana's train , a tribe of bare - legged nymphs , with their petticoats tied ...
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... honours * . The castle , after its capture , was completed by the Saracens , and was a noble structure ; but in 1704 , the magazine being struck with lightning , 300 barrels of gunpowder exploded , and blew the greatest part of it into ...
... honours * . The castle , after its capture , was completed by the Saracens , and was a noble structure ; but in 1704 , the magazine being struck with lightning , 300 barrels of gunpowder exploded , and blew the greatest part of it into ...
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